Synopsis

This fork just that add to pidtree the opportunity to have the name of the process and to search with the process name, especially on Windows (not tested on other platforms). It's a base module that help me implements pidtree-watcher (on npmjs)

Usage

var pidtree = require('pidtree');

// Get childs of current process
pidtree(process.pid, function (err, pids) {
  console.log(pids);
  // => []
});

// Include the given pid in the result array
pidtree(process.pid, {root: true}, function (err, pids) {
  console.log(pids);
  // => [727]
});

// Get all the processes of the System (-1 is a special value of this package)
pidtree(-1, function (err, pids) {
  console.log(pids);
  // => [530, 42, ..., 41241]
});

// Include PPID in the results
pidtree(1, {advanced: true}, function (err, pids) {
  console.log(pids);
  // => [{ppid: 1, pid: 530}, {ppid: 1, pid: 42}, ..., {ppid: 1, pid: 41241}]
});

// If no callback is given it returns a promise instead
const pids1 = await pidtree(1);
console.log(pids);
// => [141, 42, ..., 15242]

// you can also search a process by name
const pids2 = await pidtree("firefox");
console.log(pids);
// => [13899, 13900, ..., 15242]


// or with like to search by regexp
const pids3 = await pidtree(-1,{like:"firef"});
console.log(pids);
// => [13899, 13900, ..., 15242]


// you can also search a process by with like
const pids4 = await pidtree(-1,{like:"firef", withNames: true});
console.log(pids);
// => [{pid:13899, name:"firefox.exe"}, {pid:13900, name:"firefox.exe"}, ..., {pid:13913, name:"firefox.exe"}]

// note that searching with option withNames implies with root
const pids5 = await pidtree("myApp",{withNames: true});
console.log(pids);
// => [{pid:13899, name:"myApp"}]

Authors

• original author Simone Primarosa
• Ange-Marie MAURIN

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the license file for details.